“Cognitive Ease 3” Part 3 of the Politics of Denial Series

This was originally posted to my Blog “To Everyone”. I am considering collecting three blogs into one. A challenge. This was originally written on the Blogger (Google) platform.

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Originally written January 14, 2018

I am going to start by recalling the words of one of the towering presidents in American history.

Indeed it is the president that is said to be the founder of this modern political party.

Let’s see if you recall this quote: “This country with its institutions belongs to the people who inhabit it.

Whenever they grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it or their revolutionary right to overthrow it.”

Abraham Lincoln the father of the Republican Party. It is called “The Party of Lincoln”.

I wonder if Paul Ryan, Mitch McConnell, and Trump have forgotten his words of admonishment?

They sure are acting like.

If they ever knew these words of President Lincoln, their actions say it is OK to ignore them.

But why not?

They are ignoring the rule of law, the Constitution, the past practices and etiquette that have made this country great.

WHY SHOULDN’T THEY JUST DO AS THEY PLEASE? DO WHAT SUITS THEM AND SAY ‘TO HELL WITH THE REST’?

During the past two days, we have found the answer to the question that has me stymied for almost two years.

Why are the leaders of the Republican Party not performing their duty and getting Trump out of office.

He is not suited intellectually nor is his heart in the right place.

He flagrantly abuses the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the Rule of Law.

Our first discussion began with a look at an article in “The Daily Beast” written by CliveIrving and published on January 12, 2018.

The title of the article is “Trump’s War on the Press Follows the Mussolini and Hitler Playbook”.

The second article that brought my question into focus was “How RepublicansNormalized Donald Trump’s Racism” published on January 13, 2018.

It was written by David Corn on January 12, 2018, in response to Trump calling some countries “shithole nations”.

Some people immigrated to this country from “shithole nations”.

David Corn is the Washington bureau chief for Mother Jones News wrote this proactive article.

These two articles focused my thinking.

I have now arrived at a conclusion as to why the Republican Party from which its leadership: which forces policies and forces retributions for not adhering to these policies and decisions. The most junior congresspeople are intimidated.

We followed Joseph Goebbels tactics and tenets, as Hitler’s Minister of Entertainmentand Propoganda, as he brought the independent press of Germanyunder his control within one year of his appointment.

Trump’s glory, in addition to being crowned the Great Dictator of the News Cycle is his ability to “get people to readily accept the aberrant as normal was one of Hitler’s most effective tactics.”

This is what Ron Rosenbaum demonstrates in his writing in the Los Angeles Review ofBooks.

The second article by David Corn of Mother Jones News explains how dizzyingly swift the Republican Party has fallen under the sway of Trump.

They will not challenge his vulgar open racism as shown by the events of January 12 and Trump’s “shithole of nations” quote.

To this day not one Republican has broken ranks, to tell the truth about what Trump said.

An encouraging but in the end, an empty slap in the face to Trump is the speech that Senator Flake is going to deliver on the Senate floor on Wednesday, January 17, 2018.

As he did in his resignation speech I am sure that Senator Jeff Flake R-AZ will scold Trump with well-framed words.

He will bring all of a Trump’s errors, personality flaws, and his crimes since taking office before the American people thru TV and the Internet.

The downside is that the good Senator will be addressing an empty Senate chamber and a president that is ignoring the TV on this great occasion.

Party leadership is counting the days until they can actively work to replace him.

In an article on CNN “ Donald Trump is a racist who preys on the powerless” by ScottLucas.

Professor of International Politics at the UK’s University of Birmingham, he unilaterally states that ” Trump is a racist.”

“This should be said without excuses, without evasions, without caveats.”

He continues “trump dislikes entire groups of people based on their place of origin to religion”.

Trump’s latest disruption “shithole nations” has drawn criticism from around the world.

Two missing counties from that list are China and Russia.

Since the two strongmen running these counties are also “governing in the paths of Goebbels and Hitler” their silence is not a surprise.

So where does that leave us or more accurately point us?

One answer is that our independent press will have to be ever more watchful for attacks by Trump and his henchmen.

We, as citizens, will have to be on guard to support a free and open press.

If we fall silent the media will be dumped into the place where all dictators, strongmen, and criminals leave a free press,castrated and powerless to continue shining a bright light on their crimes and misdemeanors!

Our vigilance will call on us to Cry Out when we find ‘Fake News’ – the Real Kind.

We will have to query each congressperson to identify those we can trust and those that have fallen prey to the criminals and who should fall on their swords.

Each of these articles by expert writers is damning evidence of the fall and failure of the Republican Party.

Other articles throughout the Internet are making the case that the Republicans should be concerned regarding this year’s elections.

I am not as optimistic as the other writers are.

I will continue to add my voice to theirs in decrying the corrupt policies against the American people.

I do not offer my opinions as expert testimony but as personal opinions of an aggrieved American citizen watching our country being ripped asunder by these crooks.